Re: Bigbabytalk -a primitive language for AI

--- Jonathan Chang <Zhang2323@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 2000:09:09 7:24:13 PM, dawier@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> >It was cute.  And I was able to decipher it.  But tell me, is that
> >really based on Chinese grammar and English vocabulary?
>
>     Not really. Chinese is a lil more complicated than that (what
> with all
> the grammatical particles & such, which I find myself in a love-hate
> relationship with in terms of my ConLang Caos Pidgin... I admire the
> more
> elliptical Classical Chinese used in poetry that avoids particles
> like they
> were cockroaches, used only when absolutely necessary...)
Aw, I should've said "based on a very prejudiced interpretation of
Chinese grammar which claims that Chinese has no grammar..."

I found the same thing with Modern Persian (Farsi et al), where the old
Indo-Iranian eight-case system eventually broke down into a single case
system with prepositions, _idhafat_ linking of nouns and adjectives (or
genitives), suffixes for posession, etc.

And we all know English itself is a very old (since Middle English)
Franco-Germanic pidgin after all.

> >  (Actually I'm
> >prejudiced against any English-based IAL's or "global pidgins".
>
>
>     I feel the same way - in a fashion,... that's why I am making
> Caos Pidgin
> based on Italo-Spanish-like lexifying.
>     Italian and Spanish at least have better phonemic spellings than
> English
> & is IMHO more appealling aesthetically to my sensibilities.
I agree.  And this sounds a lot like my Big Six project, which I may
end up abandoning since, well, I'm just not interested anymore; I've
grown very cynical about IAL's.  I still prefer the idea of a "global
pidgin", and I know there are already better projects much further in
development than my Big Six.

Leo Moser, a member of AUXLANG (at least when I was there), has a
database of words from the major languages.  I forgot what it's called,
"World Vocabulary" or something?  Or am I thinking of Bislama?

Now, explain what Chaos Pidgin is if you don't mind...

DaW.

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